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It was a shame you couldn't make it through on that day Ian, but it certainly hasn't held you back at all!

Whilst it's great that TeachMeet continues to grow, I do however have one concern - at what point do they get too big? Are they still valuable if the majority are there simply to 'hear'? Is there is no necessity to action?

I understand what your saying. I personally hope that the 120+ lurkers will go away and then help organise local teachmeets with no more than about 50 max particpants. And I mean participants not lurkers or watchers

The Islay High School Project

1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils
2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum
3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses.
4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum

I am heavily involved with the ICT strand so that is what I will be talking about mainly. Though, of course, the other strands will be brought in as well.
So what are we planning in the ICT Strand?

Every Teacher has a Tablet PC
A wireless network
Wireless Projectors in every teaching area
A presentation space in the Assembly Hall
A Media Server
A Class Server
Existing courses digitised
S1 'Benchmarked' for IC3 Giving them individual curriculum in S1/2
Once these are in place then give every pupil a UMPC computer

All of these are in Partnership with Microsoft, Dell, Diageo (Large local employer) and Prodigy (Certiport solution provider).

Maybe more partners in the future
We have just started down this route. I am sure we will have lots of challenges ahead.